Tonga: Not for sale

An episode of the The Kicker podcast, hosted by Columbia Journalism Review, titled "Tonga: Not for sale" was published on January 28, 2022 and runs 23 minutes.

January 28, 2022 ·23m · The Kicker

Summary

Typical disaster journalism follows a transactional track. Survivors give the press their stories to package and sell. In turn, the media validates the horror and solicits aid. But when Tonga faced a volcanic eruption and tsunami earlier this month, the island nation neither wanted nor needed Western coverage. In fact, our intrusion presented more of a threat than the crisis itself.On this week’s Kicker, Damien Cave, the New York Times bureau chief in Sydney, Australia, and Kyle Pope, editor ...

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